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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I pretty much gave up on KDE for now. I hope there isn't a KDE 4.4 until KDE 4.3 is finished. KDE 4.3 has different problems on my computers than KDE 4.2 but neither of them work all that well. Although KDE 4.3 seems faster, Dolphin crashes more. I also found that shortcuts I created for the 4.2 desktop don't work in 4.3 (and crash various things). Since each version of KDE seems to require starting over I think I'll wait until the next Slackware release before I start over again.

I've gotten KDE 4.2 to work well enough to use with most things except for VirtualBox. I use XFCE for that. Dolphin seems sluggish but it mostly doesn't crash on KDE 4.2.

It really doesn't matter to me what desktops are in Slackware as long as they work and can be maintained between releases with bug fixes. So far KDE 4.3 does not seem to be a good bug fix for 4.2. It might be worthwhile to focus on getting a solid KDE 4.3 and a Slackware 13.1 release while KDE is still interested in 4.3.

Dolphin crashed when I tried to navigate into ~/.local for the first time. Since then, it's worked great.
I fooled around a bit, and ended up doing another clean install of -current and KDE 4.3.2. I managed to crash Dolphin the exact same way, and no crashes since then.

The other issue I just noticed with 4.3.2 that I did not have with 4.2.4 is with screen redrawing. Now and then, if I fire up a menu on top of an open application, then close the menu, I get part of the menu left over on the application or part of the desktop wallpaper drawn on the app. Same goes for moving one app over another. I have a passively-cooled GeForce 9800 GT, desktop effects disabled and using Nvidia driver v185.18.36. Pure 64-bit Slack. I haven't tried enabling desktop effects to compare, and I've yet to try a newer Nvidia beta to see if that would help.

The graphic glitches can be annoying, but other than that, I feel KDE 4.3.2 is pretty solid.

I gave GSB64 2.26.3 a spin the other day on an Athlon64 laptop. That worked great. It was the first time, in my experience, that I installed GNOME SlackBuild and it "just worked." GNOME looks pretty archaeic next to KDE4 these days, but when it comes to GTK+2 desktops I like the feel of a full GNOME setup over XFCE. I think GNOME offers a more fluid experience for the end user... if you can stomach running a heavier desktop environment.

Just tested it, burns DVDs just fine now. Looks a little disconcerting on the screen, though, with the software buffer going up and down like a yoyo, which slows it down somewhat, but so far it seems to work fine.

i'm not an experienced kde user. I'm using fluxbox because kde and the like are too much bloated for me. However once in a while i give it a chance, installing updates and have a look.
After installing the latest current updates, everything worked well, except this one: I tried to start the "multimedia" part of the control panel. The whole control panel died.
I switched to console, saw lines of phonon messages, but nothing
related to a crash or something.
Its not important to me, just wanted to mention that.

I just fired up multimedia and it displayed just fine. Never had been there before, so I just had a look around and got out. But it didn't die on me. I had a one-time crash with Dolphin as well early on. It hasn't given me a bit of trouble since.

Dolphin crashed when I tried to navigate into ~/.local for the first time. Since then, it's worked great.
I fooled around a bit, and ended up doing another clean install of -current and KDE 4.3.2. I managed to crash Dolphin the exact same way, and no crashes since then.

The other issue I just noticed with 4.3.2 that I did not have with 4.2.4 is with screen redrawing. Now and then, if I fire up a menu on top of an open application, then close the menu, I get part of the menu left over on the application or part of the desktop wallpaper drawn on the app. Same goes for moving one app over another. I have a passively-cooled GeForce 9800 GT, desktop effects disabled and using Nvidia driver v185.18.36. Pure 64-bit Slack. I haven't tried enabling desktop effects to compare, and I've yet to try a newer Nvidia beta to see if that would help.

The graphic glitches can be annoying, but other than that, I feel KDE 4.3.2 is pretty solid.

I gave GSB64 2.26.3 a spin the other day on an Athlon64 laptop. That worked great. It was the first time, in my experience, that I installed GNOME SlackBuild and it "just worked." GNOME looks pretty archaeic next to KDE4 these days, but when it comes to GTK+2 desktops I like the feel of a full GNOME setup over XFCE. I think GNOME offers a more fluid experience for the end user... if you can stomach running a heavier desktop environment.